From The Register:

Forget mis-configured Apache servers and vulnerability-laden Adobe applications. The biggest security threats to business and home networks may be the avalanche of webcams, printers, and other devices that ship with embedded web interfaces that can easily be turned against their masters.

The web interfaces are designed to make it easy to manage the devices by allowing people to use a readily familiar medium to change settings such as file names and IP addresses. But there’s a catch: The low-cost gadgets were never designed to withstand attacks, even though they interact with some of the most sensitive parts of a computer network, says a team of researchers at Stanford University that tested 21 devices made by 16 different manufacturers.

"We didn’t find a single secure device," said Hristo Bojinov, a PhD candidate at Stanford’s Computer Security Lab.

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